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sgannon1
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Convert currency

I am using sql as my source data, and running reports for both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. The data for each region is in separate tables. Is there a way I can convert the currency in the Northern Ireland tables to EURO before building my visualisations, so everything can be reported in single currency?

Thanks in advance for your help. 

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MrPowerBIPro
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Advocate II

For currency conversion, I build a Slicer for change the currency. Then I wrote a formula to change the curreny: 

 

For example suppose defualt currecy is Euro: 

Euro_rate1= 1.05* US Dollar

Euro_rate2 =3378 * Irianian Rial (IRR)

 

IF(VALUES(Currency_Table[CurrencyType])="Dollar",FORMAT(SUM(Sales [Euro])/[Euro_rate1]),"$ #,##0.00;($ #,##0.00)") ,IF(VALUES(Currency_Table[CurrencyType])="IRR",FORMAT(SUM(Incentive_Table[Euro])/[Euro_rate2]),"€ #,##0.00;(€ #,##0.00)"),FORMAT(SUM(Incentive_Table[Euro])/1),"IRR #,##0.00;(IRR #,##0.00)")))

 

Means:

IF Currency Type="Dollar" Then Sales based on Euro/Euro_rate1

IF Currency Type="IRR" Then Sales based on Euro/Euro_rate2

 

Then format them.

Did you get it ?

I hope it is helpful.

Regards

Mostafa

Enemy of can't
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jcarville
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Skilled Sharer

When you bring your data in could you not create a new column and then multiply the £ by todays € rate, I find Oanda.com good.

I'm not sure of a current way that the conversion rate could automatically update itself.

 

 

arify
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

If you want to keep the conversion rate updated in every refresh, you can get that rate from a Web Page query.

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